Sunday, January 31, 2010

WHEN IT'S TIME TO TURN IN ONE'S DRIVERS LICENSE


WHEN IT'S TIME TO TURN IN ONE'S DRIVERS LICENSE

An elderly couple was on their way to
Greenville, North Carolina when they
stopped at McDonald's in Lawrenceville, VA.
They did not know that they had hit this
deer until someone in McDonald's told
them. The elderly man said he noticed that
the car was starting to run a little hot the
last few miles.

How many zeros in a billion?

With the government throwing huge numbers around,
and with the Fed printing two trillion extra dollars,
it will be good to read this.
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.


A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the
earth on two feet.

E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate our government
is spending it.



While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
let's take a look at New Orleans .....
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.



Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)
is presently asking Congress for
250 BILLION DOLLARS
to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number...
what does it mean?

A.
Well ... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
you each get $516,528.

B.
Or ... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C.
Or ... if you are a family of four...
your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington , D. C HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License T ax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax!
Tele phone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell 'politicians!'

And I still have to
press '1'
for English.

I hope this goes around the
USA
at least 100 times

Prohibit Property Transfer Tax in Missouri

Prohibit Property Transfer Tax in Missouri

Dear Friend,

It may have been a while since you have heard from me. But this is so important to me and you, that I reviewed all my email contacts and have chosen to send this to you under a ‘bcc’, because I am sure you would want to know.

It is about, a proactive initiative to mobilize Missouri residents across the state for a ballot initiative in 2010 to constitutionally protect real estate property from a real estate transfer tax. This basically means that when you soldl a real estate property you would be charged a ‘tax,” possibly by the county, city, and/or state.

Several states on our borders, do have property transfer taxes in place, and with the current economic condition, the state of Missouri may decide this would be a good idea for generating revenue. It seems to be a current trend across the nation. Their average tax is 4% of the sale price! Once a real estate transfer tax is put into place, it can be increased without additional voter input.

Please educate yourself by taking a few minutes to see the short video about this initiative. Just press ‘ctrl’ and click on the link below. Please forward to as many people as possible. If you choose not to forward, nothing bad will happen to you now. . . But something bad may happen to all of us later, if you don’t ! !

(The opinions stated in this email are mine and should not be construed otherwise.)

Thanks for your time!

San Francisco Police Dept.. (The Keystone Cops?)

San Francisco Police Dept.. (The Keystone Cops?)

Imagine being a cop in San Francisco …

Chief Heather Fong (left),
the first SFPD female chief of police;

Theresa Sparks (center, former male),
president of the San Francisco Police Commission,
CEO of a multi million-dollar sex toy retailer,
and a trans gender woman.

Sgt. Stephan Thorne (right, former female),
the first transgender SFPD police officer.

Their Representative in Congress is Nancy Pelosi.
This pretty much explains why we are where we are, doesn’t it?

AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN!

AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN!

Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich' was based. He
was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to
justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and
killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.

In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs
to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.

He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News
stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly
laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show.
Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the
Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it
occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and
target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as
a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the
U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and
hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down
quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have
been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are
truly effective.

For example:

1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new
explosives are made of plastic.

2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of
that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to
bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says
he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his
underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.

3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.

Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they
will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are
checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of
explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to
watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink,
and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel,
security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will
involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups
of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New
York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping
malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America
this time. The interlands (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).

The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the
country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities,
including rural areas.

Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger
cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply
valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that
our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the
facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues
like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally
irrelevant.

On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned
about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will
not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line
approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite
abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most
concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead,
'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and
universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who
frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East. These young terrorists
will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully
understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't
know/understand a thing about them.

Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the
terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful
of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv
says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective,
Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for
intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel's, Ireland's and England's
hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration
perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to
help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S.
government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government
thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we
understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.

Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing
an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The
results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In
fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that
an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who
know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly
cleared by the citizens themselves.
Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their
government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the
government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the
best first-line of defense against terrorism.
Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America
who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without
parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in
place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New
York City, this was days, in some cases!) He stresses the importance of
having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in
the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their
children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions,
just as they do in Israel.

Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone?
Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan
that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.

Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of
another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones,
blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred
communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs
are detonated.

How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak
to each other? You need to have a plan.
If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel
compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents,
uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, beloved friends, whomever. Don't stop
there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this
information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with
those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to
use them, then to have no plans in place, and find you needed them.
If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing
ever occurs -- good for you! However, in the event something does happen, and
even more so, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will
haunt you forever.
Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but
deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn't believe
it", will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do
something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to
disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning. Don't allow
yourself to be complacent, be pro-active.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

How to butcher a deer

I found this video interesting. The butcher simplifies the process of butchering a deer in a very orderly manner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzYGBNDc_xU

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

From the Canada Free Press : First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants July 7, 2009
Written by Dr. Paul L. Williams
"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, "
...
Michelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband's salary.
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers: Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President's salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Rosaline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22
How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU John Q. Public:
Michele Obama's personal staff:
1. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper
(Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deput y Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and
Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A.
(Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe
.
Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press.Com http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652
Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press had to publish this perhaps because America no longer has a free press and the USA media is too scared that they might be considered racist or suffer at the hands of Obama. Sorry America !
SICKENING.........ISN'T IT

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

PRO-GUN QUOTE

"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.'' - Abraham Lincoln

Famous Gun Quotes http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/famous-gun-quotes

Monday, January 25, 2010

Great Orators of the Democrat Party

Great Orators of the Democrat Party

'One man with courage makes a majority.'
- Andrew Jackson

'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

'The buck stops here.'
- Harry S. Truman

'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'
- John F. Kennedy





And from today's Genius Democrats..............


'It depends what your definition of 'Sex' is?''
- Bill Clinton

'That Obama - I would like to cut his NUTS off.'
- Jesse Jackson

'Those rumors are false .... I believe in the sanctity of marriage.'
- John Edwards

'I invented the Internet'
- Al Gore

'The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ASS.'
- Joe Biden

' America is--is no longer, uh, what it--it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was....uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children.'
- Barack Obama

'I have campaigned in all 57 states.
- Barack Obama (Quoted 2008)

'You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats.'
- Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)

'Paying taxes is voluntary.'
- Sen. Harry Reid

'Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he.'
- Hillary Clinton (Quoted 1998)

HOW LUCKY CAN WE BE TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY?


''Life's tough ........ it's even tougher if you're stupid.''
-- John Wayne

Parade Float

I found this picture online, and I have a question ...
Is that Hillary and what is she hanging on to?


Answer: His stimulus package.

O Beautiful

In his Stoplight® commentary, Stuart Shepard takes us on a little road trip. Why not give yourself a two-minute vacation to contemplate life's bigger issues?
http://www.citizenlink.org/videofeatures/A000010256.cfm

Obama Trifecta:

Obama Trifecta:

President Obama just completed the UNHOLY and ANTI-AMERICAN TRIFECTA:

---1st president in 110 years to miss the annual Army-Navy Football Game.

---1st president to not attend any Christmas religious observance.

---1st president to stay on vacation after a terrorist attack.


Add to that, he's the first President not to stay in Washington for Christmas for the last 20 years. Past Presidents did not leave Washington for Christmas vacation until after Christmas. This was done so that their staff (Secret Service, Air Force One Crew, Limousine transport, Presidential advancing logistics etc.) could be with their families for Christmas.

He's the most narcissistic, self-absorbed President ever elected. And this is just his first year!!

GOV flow chart

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The economy is so bad that:

The economy is so bad that:


I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

I ordered a burger at McDonald's and the kid behind the counter asked,
"Can you afford fries with that?"

CEO's are now playing miniature golf.

If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call
them and ask if they meant you or them.

Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.

McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their
children's names.

A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .

Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.

The Mafia is laying off judges.

Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.

Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh
Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by
the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!

And, finally...

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my
savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide
Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was
suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck

Friday, January 22, 2010

I Like Guns - Steve Lee

Steve Lee is an Australian who has written a song about his love for guns. Ted Nugent represents how many people feel about Gun Control in the United States and he is a rock star. I think Steve Lee is going to become a Rock Star because of this song. You can buy his CD and learn more about Steve at his http://ilikeguns.com.au

She Shot Him 6 Times

She Shot Him 6 Times

FROM...THE HOUSTON HERALD NEWSPAPER IN HOUSTON, TEXAS

Last Thursday night around midnight, A woman from Houston, Texas was arrested, jailed, and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man 6 times in the back as he was running away with her purse.

The following Monday morning, the woman was called in front of the Arraignment Judge, sworn in, and asked to explain her actions.

The woman replied, "I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15 minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work.

I am a waitress at a local cafe. I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol that was in my purse that was hung over my left shoulder.

All of a sudden I was being spun around hard to my left. As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away from me with my purse.

I looked down at my right hand and I saw that my fingers were wrapped tightly around my pistol. The next thing I remember is saying out loud, "No Way Punk! You are not stealing my pay check and tips."
I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man running away from me with purse, and squeezed the trigger of my pistol 6 times!

When asked by the Arraignment Judge, "Why Did You Shoot The Man 6 Times?

The woman replied under oath, "Because, when I pulled the trigger The 7th Time, it only went CLICK."

The woman was acquitted of all charges. She was back at work, at the cafe, the next day!

Now that's GUN CONTROL.....

AMEN

Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

The Press vs.Tiger Woods and Obama

I think it's remarkable that the press can find every woman Tiger Woods has had an affair with the last few years; with photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc. They know not only the cause of the family fight, but even know it was a wedge from his golf bag that she used to break out the windows in the Escalade. Not only that, they know which wedge she used. This is the same press—or is it—that cannot locate Obama's birth certificate, any of his college papers, financial records, or transcripts, or what passport he used when he traveled to Pakistan when travel there was prohibited for U. S. citizens.
Truly remarkable!

THE UN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT

THE UN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT
The Crotch Salute Returns at the Fort Hood Memorial Service
You would think that if all the hell he is catching for being un-American, he being the super smart individual that the media says that he is, he would work a little harder to get it right. You have to wonder about how arrogant and intelligent he really is
Recently, at the Fort Hood Memorial Service, the crotch salute returned...
I'm sorry folks, but is this the turkey that was elected President of our country? You know, the United States of America ? I do believe that saluting the flag goes with that office, and also honoring our fallen servicemen, or is he above that? This stinks, and he's a disgrace to our nation. He can shower us all with flowery words and dazzle us with teleprompted bulls**t, but actions speak louder than words.

The U.N. Gun Ban Treaty That Threatens Your Gun Rights

The U.N. Gun Ban Treaty That Threatens Your Gun Rights

Submitted by drieck on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 07:00. National PoliticsGun Grabbers
by Gerard Valentino

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama assured gun owners that he was no threat to gun rights. And so far, his administration has publicly steered clear of the issue. After all, Obama knows that a direct assault on the Second Amendment would be political suicide.

However, behind the scenes, he and his staff have shown support for the U.N. Gun Ban, an international treaty on small arms sales that could sidestep established American gun rights and pose a serious threat to the Second Amendment.

But how could a U.N. Gun Ban affect the rights of Americans?

The United Nations is a favorite weapon used by left-leaning activists to launch stealth attacks on American interests. Over the years, leftist ideologues have tried to empower the U.N. to govern our right to fight just wars and the right to control our own pollution standards. And now this steadily advancing treaty seeks to govern our right to bear arms.

President George W. Bush refused to involve America in any aspect of the U.N. Gun Ban treaty. But the government's position changed when Obama gave Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the green light to begin the negotiation process. The risk to American foreign policy interests are unacceptable if the Obama administration decides to make us a party to the treaty. It would destroy our ability to provide arms to non-governmental groups or other nations as we see fit. American businesses would also have their ability to do businesses in overseas markets destroyed.

The bigger issue for gun rights activist is the treaty's threat to the the right of Americans to buy guns for self-defense and sport. Foreign companies that offer great firearms at a lower cost could lose their ability to sell in America, and the flow of gun parts or accessories from overseas could be shut off.

One phrase in the treaty is key to how all this could happen. Being a party to the treaty requires all signatory states to have the "highest possible standards" in place to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists and criminals.

You can bet anti-gun forces armed with such a legal provision would find a way to use it as a reason to further regulate gun purchases. Under those circumstances, any statistical lie, no matter how far fetched, could be used as an excuse. For example, the unfounded claim that 90% of guns seized from violent Mexican drug cartels originate in America would provide support for harsh gun restrictions on U.S. citizens.

Under the guise of international cooperation, President Obama could try to use the legally binding provisions to shift blame to the U.N. for new anti-gun regulations. He could argue that he has no choice but to follow the legally binding provisions of the treaty.

Worse, the Heritage Foundation's assessment of the small arms treaty brings up a horrifying proposition that the theory of "international norms" means the U.S. might be bound by the treaty even if we never sign on.

Basically, once the small arms treaty is accepted by enough nations, the argument can be made that the provisions become accepted practice and binding on all nations. Based on that logic, America is hurt by the U.N. treaty whether we are a party to it or not.

Such a vague and ill-defined set of circumstances is exactly the type of Trojan horse President Obama needs as cover to inflict his dream of an anti-gun utopia on America.

It is therefore incumbent upon liberty minded people everywhere not only to oppose American involvement in the treaty, but also oppose the mere existence of such a treaty.

Barack Obama is the most anti gun president in history and his anti-gun views are a threat to gun rights. If he can destroy the right to bear arms while cozying up to the U.N., without paying a political price, he will surely do so.

Gerard Valentino is author of The Valentino Chronicles which is available at your favorite bookseller and is the Buckeye Firearms Foundation Treasurer

Patriots?

Patriots?
Some picture, huh? The look on both of their faces speaks volumes -- but isn't it supposed to be the right hand over your heart?

This image could have been flipped in a graphics tool, but notice, both of them have rings on their ring finger -- their left hand. His suit coat is buttoned correctly, and the flag pin is on his left lapel --so it is not a mirror image.

Other photos of Michelle shows she parts her hair on the right side, and you can see her watch tan line -- also indicating left hand.

We know that Obama frequently uses hand signals to express himself.

Are both of them as dumb as they appear? I doubt it. This is purposeful, and obviously pre-planned. They both know the correct salute, so one must ask, what message are the Obamas sending? And who are they sending it to?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

at last


"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight Eisenhower

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

It's my corn......

Anatomy of a Failing Presidency



Obvious bias to the right, and one of the most articulate writers I have seen since Bill Buckley.

I especially like the final quotation and the ‘imagined’ exit speech in 2012. Anyone who doesn’t agree with this is likely one of the folks still driving around with Obama/Biden bumper stickers still on their vehicle. The clueless left, as I affectionately refer to them.
OBAMA, who likes to compare himself to President LINCOLN, apparently cannot read.
SOME INTERESTING THOUGHTS
The following is an interesting article. You might ask how long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the White House gets wind of this article.

Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist. He has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.

An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Anatomy of a Failing Presidency

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.
Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China 20.

But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?

No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.

In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along..

Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."

"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."

Federal Judge Carter sets Trial Date for Obama's Eligibility!Lets hope thee Judge and the plantiff's attorney are still alive for the trial.


Federal Judge Carter sets Trial Date for Obama's Eligibility!Lets hope thee Judge and the plantiff's attorney are still alive for the trial.
Judge rules against Obama regarding birth certificate
Good luck judge!

Well well,a judge with the gonads to bring this to a court house !!!!
Federal Judge Carter sets Trial Date for Obama's Eligibility!

The expedited trial has been set for Jan. 26, 2010!

Many concerned veterans and citizens attended the hearing in Federal Court in Santa Ana in the lawsuit against Barack Obama to determine his eligibility to be President and Commander in Chief. About 150 people showed up, almost all in support of the lawsuit to demand that Obama release his birth certificate and other records that he has hidden from the American people.

Judge David Carter refused to hear Obama's request for dismissal. He indicated there was almost no chance that this case would be dismissed. Obama is arguing this lawsuit was filed in the wrong court if you can believe that. Obama would prefer a "kangaroo court" instead of a Federal court! Assuming Judge Carter denies Obama's motion for dismissal, he will likely then order expedited discovery which will force Obama to release his birth certificate in a timely manner (if he has one).

The judge, WHO IS A FORMER U.S. MARINE, repeated several times that this is A VERY SERIOUS CASE which must be resolved quickly so that the troops know that their Commander in Chief is eligible to hold that position and issue lawful orders to our military in this time of war. He basically said OBAMA MUST PROVE HIS ELIGIBILITY to the court! He said Americans deserve to know the truth about their President!

The two U.S. Attorneys representing Barack Obama tried everything they could to sway the judge that this case was frivolous, but Carter would have none of it and cut them off several times. Obama's attorneys left the courtroom after about the 90 minute hearing looking defeated and nervous.

Great day in America for the U.S. Constitution! The truth about Barack Obama's eligibility will be known fairly soon - Judge Carter practically guaranteed it!

Video from the press conference after the hearing coming soon. Congratulations to plaintiffs attorney Dr. Orly Taitz! She did a great job and won some huge victories. She was fearless!

The man?


Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Find your house

Find your house - Amazing Site
This is really amazing....Check out some of your old"haunts."

When you enter an address you will see a picture of that place. There's a little map with a little man on it - you can move the little man up and down the block if you need to. Really nice website!

http://www.vpike.com/

BOB&TOM TV: "Obama Man" by Greg Morton

BOB&TOM TV: "Obama Man" by Greg Morton
Canadian comedian Greg Morton weighs in on the current financial crisis and how President Obama plans to get us out of it.

"How to Recognize a Gay Terrorist"

I thought you might like to know "How to Recognize a Gay Terrorist"

His name is: "YOMAMA BIN SHOPPIN

Stop Screaming, Start Shooting…

Stop Screaming, Start Shooting…
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2010/01/18/ignatius-piazza-stop-screaming-start-shooting/

SelectSmart.com Presidential Candidate Selector

SelectSmart.com Presidential Candidate Selector
http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html
2012 Presidential Candidate Selector
http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2012.html

Bible Codes on Military Rifles

Bible Codes on Military Rifles
Do New Testament codes found on U.S. military weapons violate separation of church and state?

I'm buying one!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

'Detroit in Ruins'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYI7fPGt7Cs
THE LEFT WING UNION MODEL


The Sack Lunches

The Sack Lunches

I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,' I thought.

Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation.

'Where are you headed?' I asked the soldier seated nearest to me.
'Petawawa. We'll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we're being deployed to Afghanistan.

After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that sack lunches were available for five dollars. It would be several hours before we reached the east, and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time...

As I reached for my wallet, I overheard a soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. 'No, that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch. Probably wouldn't be worth five bucks. I'll wait till we get to base.' His friend agreed.

I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant a fifty dollar bill. 'Take a lunch to all those soldiers.' She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. 'My son was a soldier in Iraq; it's almost like you are doing it for him.'

Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and asked, 'Which do you like best - beef or chicken?'
'Chicken', I replied, wondering why she asked. She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class.

'This is your thanks..'

After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room.
A man stopped me. 'I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.' He handed me twenty-five dollars.

Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked, I hoped he was not looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand and said, 'I want to shake your hand.' Quickly unfastening my seatbelt I stood and took the Captain's hand. With a booming voice he said, 'I was a soldier and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.' I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers.

Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs.. A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He left another twenty-five dollars in my palm.

When we landed I gathered my belongings and started to deplane. Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. Another twenty-five dollars!

Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to the base.
I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. 'It will take you some time to reach the base.. It will be about time for a sandwich.
God Bless You.'

Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow travelers.

As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals. It seemed so little...

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life'.

That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.'

May God give you the strength and courage to pass this along to everyone on your email buddy list....

I JUST DID

Please send this on after a short prayer.. Prayer for our soldiers Don't break it!

Prayer:

'Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.'

Prayer Request: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world.

There is nothing attached. Just send this to people in your address book. Do not let it stop with you. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, & others deployed in harm's way, prayer is the very best one.

GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Sleep Easy, America - Feds' Terrorist Watchlist Nabs Cub Scout

Sleep Easy, America - Feds' Terrorist Watchlist Nabs Cub Scout

Friday, January 15, 2010

As we’ve reported before, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), encouraged by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, wants to prohibit anyone on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist from possessing a firearm. Yet, the list and its criteria are secret, and Lautenberg’s bill would criminalize the exercise of a constitutionally protected right while denying a person the opportunity to clear himself of accusations in a fair and open hearing before a court of law. Even today, thousands of people who aren’t terrorists cannot prevent the list from misidentifying them, causing them delays and embarrassment when trying to board commercial aircraft.

It’s one thing when an adult gets the run-around at an airport, because he or she has a name identical or similar to someone the FBI is watching. As the American Civil Liberties Union has pointed out, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “automatic selectee” list -- its list of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft without being given the once-over by the agency’s machines and uniformed, latex-gloved personnel -- is based on people’s names, not on physical factors like age.

But when the system is so unorganized that it cannot distinguish a kid from a terrorist, what’s going on here? Yesterday, the New York Times reported that for the last six or seven years, one of Lautenberg’s constituents -- eight-year-old New Jersey Cub Scout Michael “Mikey” Hicks -- hasn’t been able to get on a plane without being patted down like your average neighborhood hubcap thief with his palms on the hood of a police cruiser and a nightstick between his legs. Repeatedly mistaken for someone on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist since he was two years old, Mikey’s encounters with the federal government have consisted of, as his mother puts it, “Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch, someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he’s a criminal.”

To say that the situation is ironic is a gross understatement. The government can’t or won’t get Mikey’s situation straightened out. And he isn’t alone. The Times says that of nearly 82,000 travelers who have applied through the Department of Homeland Security to get their names cleared from the watchlist during the last three years, 25,000 are still waiting.

Yet, the government failed to add to the TSA’s “no-fly list” the self-proclaimed al Qaeda-trained Nigerian Islamist fanatic who allegedly smuggled military high explosives aboard a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day last year and almost blew the plane to kingdom come. As the White House report on the incident concluded, there was enough information to have placed him on the “no-fly list;” he was already in the government’s international terrorist identities database (the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE). But, the government failed to recognize that he had a U.S. travel visa (which it could have revoked) because it had misspelled his name.

TSA can spell “Mikey,” however. Despite efforts by the boy’s parents and their congressman to get TSA to straighten out the error, the delays and pat-downs continue. Meanwhile, other non-terrorists tired of their airport delays have been able to get off TSA’s radar screen by changing their names or deliberately misspelling their names when purchasing a ticket.

Irrespective of how this relates to Second Amendment issues, we think -- and more and more people are likely to agree -- that while our fellow Americans in federal service have prevented virtually all terrorist attacks in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks, numerous problems with the watchlist apparatus remain and it is long past the time that these problems should have been corrected.

Mikey’s case, however, serves to remind us of the potential ramifications for the Second Amendment, if the watchlist is used by the likes of Lautenberg and Bloomberg to their nefarious ends.
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5302

WE FIGURED HIM OUT! By Ben Stein

WE FIGURED HIM OUT! By Ben Stein

Why is President Barrack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.

They wanted so much to believe Barrack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer", Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth.

Barrack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation.

Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.

The title "WE FIGURED HIM OUT!" does not apply to me. I knew all about him for over a year. I'm teed off at those who put him there, for being either too lazy or too stupid to know better.

They may have ruined my country and yours.

You must as an American FORWARD this to all, or you will wake up one morning and your freedoms are no longer there.

The Navy's new pirate catcher

The Navy's new pirate catcher
Here are some recent photos of the LCS 2 (to be USS) Indepghton reendence . She's at 43 knots here running at half power. NOTE the absence of a bow wave.
Turns tightly, also; allegedly this also was done at 43 knots...and from the look of the small bow wave, she's still in the turn.
And then we have the massive helo deck big enough for a CH-53. Last time I talked with the SURFPAC guys years ago. THIS was the LCS they liked because of the huge storage capacity under that flight deck and the size of the flight deck.

Note that there is very little spreading wake. In fact, it does not look like a wake at all, just foamy water from the water jets. Somehow, at 40 knots, you'd think there'd be more wake.
But she has one drawback, she's strange looking but aerodynamically designed, is this beginning of a new design in ships?


Here's a Look at The U.S. Navy's New Pirate Catchers!





WOW! A couple of these should be able to clean up the pirates off the coasts of Africa .....
This is the U.S.S. Independence (LCS-2)
It is a Triple Hulled, Weapon-Laden Monster.

Here it is under construction....



There have been rumors about the U.S. Navy's speedy new triple hulled ships, but now they're for real.

The U.S.S Independence was built by General Dynamics. It's called a "littoral combat ship" (LCS), and the tri-maran can move its weapons around faster than any other ship in the Navy. (Ironic that with all that high tech built in, the ship reminds us of the Merrimac ironclad from Civil War days.)
Littoral means close to shore, and that's where these very ships will operate. They're tailor-made for launching helicopters and armored vehicles, sweeping mines and firing all manner of torpedoes, missiles and machine guns.

These ships are also relatively inexpensive. This one's a bargain at $208 million, and the Navy plans to build 55 of them.
This tri-maran is the first of a new fire breathing breed, ready to scoot out of dry dock at a rumored 60 knots.. It's like a speedy and heavily armed aircraft carrier for helicopters.

Pirates Beware!!!

Anti-Gun Senator Shoots Intruder

Anti-Gun Senator Shoots Intruder

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/national/article/74-year-old_n.c._state_senator_shoots_wounds_intruder_at_his_home/287987/P10/

Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R..C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City , N.C. About 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the politician's home county said. The victim, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital, but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus , Bladen and Brunswick counties..

The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff 's Department are investigating the shooting, Gore said. Soles, who was not arrested, declined to discuss the incident Sunday evening. "I am not in a position to talk to you," Soles said by telephone. "I'm right in the middle of an investigation." Soles, a top-ranking Democrat and the longest-serving member of the legislature, already was the subject of an FBI investigation over sexual misconduct allegations with former male clients. (FHW - Now, that sounds more like a liberal to me).

The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership for the general public, didn't hesitate to defend himself with his own gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim.

In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the "Do As I Say And Not As I Do" Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical you may ask? It is because his long legislative record shows that the actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation.

It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and personal safety is more valuable than yours or mine. But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our lives, raise our kids, and protect our families better than we can .

Flag Comment Posted by Mick on October 03, 2009 at 9:23 am
Enigma,
I wonder if all the Jews that lived under Nazi Germany felt the same way? Maybe the people of Cambodia during the reign of Pol pot. Or Stalin’s Russia? If only the cops have guns, we will be safe they said. You seem to be afraid of an ordinary CITIZEN with a firearm but do not fear an entire police force or government officials. How many ordinary citizens disarmed those around them and commited genocide?? HIstory is filled with examples of police and governments exterminating their own unarmed people, compare the numbers to someone like Charles Whitman or the DC sniper.
Studies even show if you give absolute control, authority and power to a group on individuals over a group of helpless people, the ones in control lose all respect and empathy for those they under them and result to violence and torture. Click on this link for a reference.
http://www.prisonexp.org/
With that being said, as long as police have guns, i will too. History shows, ordinary citizens are alot less deadly then police and government.

Friday, January 15, 2010

The Great Debate

The Great Debate
"...what should you do when you encounter someone who just doesn't share your belief in the right of all Americans to keep and bear arms?..."
by Robert Childers
Because humans have the ability to reason, we're unique in being aware of our own mortality. It's why we worry so much about the future, our personal security and spend vast amounts of time, money and energy planning for both. Yet despite this, the unexpected does happen and it usually happens when we are least prepared.

Though individual reasons vary, a common thread through all of this is protection against the unexpected. That's why the insurance business is the mega-billion-dollar, worldwide industry it is today. With the attacks of 9/11 and the ensuing war on terrorism, a large number of police departments are being stretched thin due to new homeland defense responsibilities. Add to this fact that many experienced LEO's are being recalled for service in the military, and the result is fewer officers are available to protect us from the normal crimes we encounter every day here at home.

In New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina showed us another sobering fact; there will be times when our government either can not or will not be there when we need them most, leaving us to fend for ourselves. Along with other events, this should be a wake up call to all Americans that we must take responsibly for our own safety and well-being. For many of us, that responsibility includes the owning and carrying of a firearm. If asked why we own and carry a concealed weapon, most would likely respond that we consider it our BEST form of personal protection "insurance."

Despite the above facts and the current nationwide interest in passing concealed carry and right to carry legislation, what should you do when you encounter someone who just doesn't share your belief in the right of all Americans to keep and bear arms? There are still tens of millions of Americans who have never seen a real gun unless it was carried by law enforcement officers. Even more have never seen a gun fired except in movies or on TV. Due to this unfamiliarity and the constant barrage of negative information put out by anti-gun groups and the media, many people are afraid of guns and see them not as a tool in defending us against crime, but a cause of it.

We should all begin by educating non-gun owners about the true purpose of firearms. Like an automobile, a gun is no more dangerous than the person using it. My favorite analogy is comparing a firearm to my home's smoke detectors; I hope they will never be needed, but they can and do save lives when used as intended. You can also point out countries like Australia and Great Britain, or American cities like Washington, DC. where gun ownership has been banned in for most citizens for at least a decade now. In all of them, crime rates have consistently risen yearly since gun control laws were passed, not dropped compared to the United States on general!

Still, we must remember while there are a vast number of positive reasons to support firearm ownership, you must first get a 'non-believer' to hear them. We're all entitled to an opinion in America. Unfortunately, the expressing of that opinion can lead to arguments. Though it may sometimes be tempting, arguing with someone and saying he has no idea what he's talking about won't win you much support. All too often, one (or both) of the participants enters a discussion with the assumption, "My opinion is right. Since you don't agree, yours must be wrong". After that, things usually go down hill faster than water rolling off the side of Mount Rushmore. Participant "A" begins to push his view while participant "B" begins to defend his and soon, nobody is listening anymore. On the other hand, most people are willing to listen if you try talking WITH them instead of at them.

Listening to an opinion contrary to your own with an open mind can be very difficult at times. However, you'd be surprised at how often you can effect a change in opinion by letting the other person have his say without becoming too defensive of your own. By stating your side of the discussion, listening to the other person's perspective and saying; "Think about what I've said and decide for yourself," most people will at least consider what you have to say. The WORST thing you can do is tell someone that they're wrong, they're stupid, blind or a fool because they don't agree with you. It's a part of human nature that nobody wants to admit that they may be wrong, especially on issues they feel are important to them -- Even if I had been willing to consider your opinion before, if you've just insulted me, I'll probably no longer listen to anything you have to say.

I consider arguments just another version of leading a horse to water; you can talk until your jaw hurts, but you can't force the other guy to listen if he doesn't want to. After many years of trial and error, I discovered that the other guy is usually more open to your side of a discussion if you state your point using facts instead of opinion, if you listen to your opponent without being argumentative or judgmental, and can offer a logical rebuttal or alternative to their opinion. If I still can't persuade him to change his opinion and he can't persuade me to change mine, we'll just have to "agree to disagree." While I may not have changed his mind, I'm more likely than not to at least get a positive response because I was willing to listen to his viewpoint, even if I didn't agree with it.

If you find yourself engaged in the great debate over the pros and cons of firearms, just remember the old saying, "You catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar".
Bob Childers has a Degree in Theology and retired from the United States Navy in 1994. He's a member of the NRA, Texas State Rifle Association, the East Texas Rifle and Pistol Club and holds a Texas CCL. You can find out more about him at his website: http://vchilder.home.netcom.com

More guns, less crime in 2009

www.BuckeyeFirearms.org
More guns, less crime in 2009

Submitted by drieck on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 07:00. EducationGun Grabbers
Now that 2009 has come to an end, giving America time to take stock of the year that was, we can once again see the true relationship between guns and crime.

Driven by fear of Barack Obama's anti-gun past, Americans bought more guns in 2009 than in any other year on record, yet homicide and violent crime rates plummeted nationwide.

The most striking decrease took place in Washington D.C., which had the lowest number of homicides since 1964 despite the end of the city's longtime ban on private ownership of firearms. Not surprisingly, the city's administration and the anti-gun doomsayers were wrong. As any clear-thinking person knows, law-abiding residents of Washington D.C. are perfectly suited to owning guns for self-defense.

The Chicken Little predictions of mass killings and bloody scenes of gun owners running amok never materialized, and the panic about the presence of guns in people's homes was much ado about nothing.

Ohio saw a surge in the number of concealed carry licenses issued statewide, which led to more guns on the streets. Despite this increase in public firepower, nearly all the major cities saw a huge drop in homicides during 2009. Only Cleveland saw an increase, and that was largely due to the serial killer who single-handedly committed 11 of the city's murders.

Overall, homicide rates across America hit lows not seen in decades.

Even though the country enjoys historic low homicide rates, the anti-gun community continues to circulate press releases claiming an unprecedented level of gun related mayhem. In their eyes, if homicide rates go up, it's because people own guns. If homicide rates go down, it's because gun control is working (but not well enough to stop them from continuing their assault on the right to bear arms.)

Their misguided approach once again proves how out of touch they are with the true pulse of America. How the anti-gun community will spin their most recent public relations disaster remains to be seen, but you can be sure they will never admit that gun control is a failed social experiment.

Establishment media outlets are reporting the decrease in crime, but are leaving out the fact that it happened while gun sales were skyrocketing. Omitting the surge in gun sales might be an honest mistake, or might simply be an oversight, but all the years of one-sided reporting on the gun issue has poisoned the relationship between mainstream reporters and gun owners.

Adding to the rift is the willingness of the establishment media to regurgitate every ridiculous press release issued by the anti-gun community.

Most recently, they fed the media stories about how concealed carry license holders are going on killing sprees across the nation. Yet, when the end-of-year crime rates showed a huge decrease in violent crime, mainstream reporters never questioned the anti-gun group's unfounded ravings.

The convergence of sharply reduced homicide rates and a huge increase in gun sales in 2009 are a key victory for the pro-gun side in the debate over gun rights in America. For years, anti-gun crusaders argued that if more guns are on the street, more gun crimes will be committed.

Establishment media outlets gladly bought into what seemed to be a logical, common sense argument that provided provocative sound bites and fed the 24 hour news cycle.

On the bright side, pro-gun advocates are usually forced to discuss the value of guns to law abiding citizens when someone is backed into a corner and must use deadly force in self defense. Such situations are not really a win for anyone, since someone is often badly hurt or killed, and someone else has to live with the guilt of having shot a fellow human being.

But facts are facts. And the sharp decline in homicides in 2009 is something to celebrate, and something that all Americans can understand and be happy about. Violence has decreased. The murder and mayhem so prevalent in cities like Washington D.C. has abated. And once again we see the wisdom of the Second Amendment.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

You can bet I will BOYCOTT IT !

USPS New 44 -Cent Stamp Celebrates a Muslim holiday.
GR0SS !!
If there is only ONE thing you forward today... let it be this!

President Obama has directed the United States Postal Service to REMEMBER and HONOR the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a new commemorative 44-Cent First Class Holiday Postage Stamp.

REMEMBER to adamantly & vocally BOYCOTT this stamp, when you are purchasing your stamps at the post office.

All you have to say is " No thank you, I do not want that Muslim Stamp on my letters! "


To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon !

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the M ilitary Barracks in Saudi Arabia !

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa !

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 !

REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!

Pass this along to every American that you know and get the word out! Honor the United States of America !

Council runs into barrage from gun-rights activists over gun-safety measure to protect children

The following page from the "St. Louis Beacon" web site Http://www.stlbeacon.org/content/view/14174/314/


Council runs into barrage from gun-rights activists over gun-safety measure to protect children
By Jo Mannies, Beacon Political Reporter
Posted 12:30 a.m. Wed., 01.13.10 - What looked to St. Louis County Chairwoman Barbara Fraser like a simple act to protect children is seen by gun-rights activists as a challenge to their right to bear arms.

Tuesday night, after hearing several activists air such views, Fraser opted to postpone a vote on a proposed ordinance change dealing with child endangerment.

The proposal, co-sponsored by Fraser and Councilwoman Hazel Erby, adds to the county's "petty offenses code'' a new section aimed at outlawing certain activities seen as endangering children.

Those activities include:

-- "Intentionally or recklessly operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance...while a child is present in the vehicle."

-- Knowingly causing or permitting a child to be present where any person is unlawfully selling, manufacturing, possessing or using either a controlled substance...or drug paraphenalia;"

-- "Intentionally or recklessly committing an act of domestic assault or domestic violation of an order of protection in the visual or auditory presence of a child;"

-- "Intentionally or recklessly storing or leaving a loaded firearm or an unloaded firearm and ammunition within the reach or easy access of a child unless such weapon is secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant safety device."

The latter provision is what brought out Fred W. Heberer of O'Fallon, who's president of the Second Amendment Coalition of Missouri.

He was among several speakers who told the council that the proposal's wording was unclear; "who determines what's 'intentional or reckless,'' Heberer asked.

The critics also said the provision may run afoul of a state law that limits what localities can do regarding gun regulations. Heberer said that the state of Missouri has a law that bars local jurisidictions from governing gun rights, except "where a gun is discharged and where it can be carried."

One man asserted that workplaces might be safer if more workers carried concealed weapons.

Heberer said in an interview that it also should be up to the parents to determine how they will protect their children from guns. Some older children, he said, may have enough acquaintance with guns that they can be trusted to use them safely.

Heberer acknowledged that some parents may be irresponsible with guns, "but punishing others is not the answer."

After the council meeting, Fraser said she was confident the proposed ordinance complied with state laws, but she was willing to wait a week so that some of the concerns voiced by gun-rights activists be examined.

Fraser, who is running for the state Senate, said the proposed ordinance focused on a number of illegal behaviors and wasn't targeting gun owners.

In any case, she added, "I have no doubt that it will pass."

Heberer said he had no doubt that other national and regional gun-rights groups will also get involved to fight the proposal.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney

The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own..

The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, of all of your personal healthcare direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law It doesn't stop there though.

The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;

The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton , Texas